As nouns the difference between enterprise and ultimate
is that
enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor while
ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.
As a verb enterprise
is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
As a adjective ultimate is
final; last in a series.
enterprise Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic)
* entreprise (chiefly archaic)
Noun
( en noun)
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
- The (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
- A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
an active participation in projects
Synonyms
* initiative
Derived terms
* enterprising
* commercial enterprise
* scientific enterprise
Verb
( enterpris)
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
- (Alexander Pope)
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
- The business must be enterprised this night.
* T. Otway
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
( Webster 1913)
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ultimate English
Adjective
( wikipedia ultimate)
( -)
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
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- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
Antonyms
* proximate
Derived terms
* antepenultimate
* penultimate
* ultimateness
Related terms
* ulterior
* ultimatum
* ultra
* ultra-
Noun
( en noun)
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
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